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In the light of, er, recent events, I've decided to up my crypto game - I now encourage people to use PGP when emailing me. Here's ...

As anyone who has been following me recently will know, one of the most important geopolitical developments is the decision to negotiate a ...

One of the more disgraceful examples of the inherent selfishness of the copyright world is that it has consistently blocked a glo...

One of the most disgraceful manifestations of the callousness of copyright maximalists is their 30-year refusal to countenance any meaningf...

Seeds have much in common with code.  Indeed, I wrote an entire book about how genomics parallels the world of software.  In particular, t...

There's an important vote in INTA today (25 April) on the transatlantic trade agreement (TAFTA/TTIP), and there are some crucial issu...

As you may have read , by an amazing coincidence, most of the UK's leading supermarkets have simultaneously announced that they will no...

Beyond the fact that you are using it to read these words, the Web has undeniably had a major impact on a large part of the world's p...

Update:  Maël Brunet has  pointed out  that the press release I linked to below is from 2011; what was actually  announced yesterday  was...

A couple of weeks ago, Techdirt wrote about a store that was trying to charge customers $5 for " just looking ", because it fel...

One of the most worrying aspects of ACTA -- which began life as a "simple" treaty about combatting counterfeit goods -- was how...

Earlier this week, the Linux Foundation made an  announcement  about the oddly-named OpenDaylight project: On Open Enterprise blog .

Last week I  wrote  a letter to the European Commission about the extraordinary failure  of the  IPRED  consultation process. I certainly...

Last week, we wrote about an organization that was  unhappy  that a Wikipedia article no longer existed. Now we have the opposite problem...

As I  wrote  last week, all the main browsers are jockeying for position in the world of mobile, which is generally recognised as the key...

Techdirt has been following the fascinating saga of Iceland's  crowdsourced constitution  for nearly two years. Back in October 2012,...

Even if you don't remember the birth of Mozilla  15 years ago , you are certainly benefitting from its consequences. For, back then, ...

As we've noted before, Amazon is beginning to wield  considerable power  over the entire publishing chain. The past teaches us that a...

Following my  post  yesterday about the extraordinary failure of the  IPRED  consultation process, I enclose below my letter sent to the ...

After weathering earlier  attacks  on its reliability, Wikipedia is now an essential feature of our online and cultural landscapes. Indee...

Back in October last year, in the context of India showing itself increasingly sceptical about  pharma patents  that drive up drug prices...

Last week I made a couple of  urgent pleas  to readers to complete the major EU  IPRED  consultation, which was being conducted on the We...

Last year, Techdirt wrote about an interesting article suggesting that we should  welcome  "cyberwar" since it would be so much...

As Mike noted a couple of days ago, international trade agreements often have the effect of constraining the power of national legislat...

Yesterday I mentioned the important consultation on IPRED, how it was closing soon, and what a good idea it would be if you applied to ...